A themed, first-draft storytelling event among friends.

For six years, Story Shuffle was a regularly organized, live recording of themed stories. Now the best of these stories are being rereleased as a weekly podcast. From 4-5pm Sunday, July 23, 2017, we'll record live to close the podcast. Join us.

James Kennedy and Rachel Playe putting the story blanket fort together.

Tomorrow, we kick off sharing Saturday’s Story Shuffle 5 items from West Philly with the ‘I Love’ theme.

We just thought you should know that it all happened in an impressively involved blanket fort set up by photographer and farmer Rachel Playe. It also featured some live acoustic music from our friends Flat Mary Road.

Adam Bruckner is a legend among Philadelphia’s homeless population and social services community.

Bruckner is a former professional soccer player and Kixx indoor soccer assistant coach, but what he’s better known for is signing checks on Mondays at 4 p.m. outside the Free Library on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Center City Philadelphia.

With a signed letter from an accredited social services agency, Bruckner will write checks for small sums of money for people to get ID cards so they can apply for jobs, drivers licenses and the like. In doing so, he helped launch a nonprofit called Restart.

It’s his small but impactful way of filling a crack in city services. (Well, he does that and he solves homicide investigations). The religious man also happens to be a fine storyteller. Listen to this four-part sermon from the end of 2005.